Baja Beauty

I needed to make a card for a friend that will be having surgery soon. I have been seeing a lot of different techniques and coloring styles done with the rose from 5th Ave Floral so I thought I'ld give it a go. I tell you, I have tried and done about every technique I could think of to this rose. I finally got his look. Cant really help you out repeating it..I can tell you what I did if you want a good laugh. First, I clear embossed on a glossy photo paper. That part went really well. I wanted to do the reinker floating done with alcohol but also was too lazy to dig out the reinkers so I colored with Bashful Blue, bordering blue with my markers and then dabbed a little Baja Blue reinker it was handier to dig out... then Whoops I sprayed with Cleaning solution instead of Alcohol...Then it caked a bit because of the film. I wiped the entire image with a sponge and a little more Baja ink...ended up with a little color left on the rose... but I got the film removed from the rose so I heat dried it with my embossing gun...so I colored again, used the aqua painter and ink from the stamp pad and a little with the markers randomly where ever the whim took me. Then I sprayed alcohol on the ink and dabbed with paper towel and dried with the heat tool again... Still too light!!!... so I took the brayer and rolled Baja over the image a few times and sponged and finagled and heat set and ended up with the rose you see... so you see it is totally a piece of Art...

I then took a piece of Baja card stock slightly larger than the finished size on the card and stamped with versamark and heat set with clear embossing powder then repeated several times to get the look of the background. I then trimmed it to size and matted with Perfect Plum. Trimming the final base piece so an 1/8" of the white cardstock would show as a border. I feel it helped accent the white Jaffray ribbon tied around the Baja Blue background. I mounted the trimmed "Rose Art work" on dimensionals. The stamped sentiment is from Upsy Daisy and it was stamped in Perfect Plum and matted with Perfect Plum. I deided it needed a purple gemstone and some Baja blue to accent by being sponged around the edge. Good Luck if you try to case it, hopefully you'll get your own unique looking Rose Art work..

Until later ...Happy Stamping!